Computer Associates Certifies Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters as ca smart With BrightStor.

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COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2002

Integration of Emulex HBAs with CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup

and BrightStor ARCserve Backup Enhances Performance and

Manageability of Storage Environments

Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX), the world's leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that its family of LightPulse Fibre Channel host bus adapters, including the 2Gb/s LP9002L and the market-leading LP8000, has been certified by Computer Associates International Inc. (NYSE:CA) as ca smart(TM) with BrightStor, the family of integrated, high-performance, mobile-to- mainframe storage solutions.

The ca smart seal of excellence is earned by partners who deliver eBusiness value and technical excellence through the integration of their solutions with CA technologies.

The combination of CA's BrightStor solutions with Emulex HBAs offers customers high-performance backup, recovery and accelerated data movement for the enhanced protection of critical information assets.

CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup automates traditional backup and recovery tasks, significantly reducing the storage workloads on IT operations staff. Its domain-based architecture and centralized management allow administrators to manage diverse enterprisewide resources and maintain the security of eBusiness environments from a single location.

CA's popular BrightStor ARCserve Backup is the industry's leading backup solution for today's heterogeneous departmental server environments.

"As enterprises struggle to successfully manage data backup and recovery without losing network performance and availability, they are seeking vendors who offer scalable, proven solutions," said Nigel Turner, senior vice president, solution partner program, CA. "The pairing of Emulex HBAs with our BrightStor solutions extends the ability of enterprise customers to efficiently and effectively address their key backup requirements."

The Emulex LP9002L HBAs operate at up to 2Gb/s Fibre Channel data rates and offer auto speed negotiation, a function that enables the host bus adapter to automatically sense the network's maximum speed, while maintaining full backwards compatibility with 1Gb/s Fibre Channel installations.

The Emulex HBA family provides a unique set of capabilities that dramatically reduce SAN management complexity, such as driver compatibility across its entire family of LightPulse HBA generations. In addition, Emulex provides a wide range of operating system support, including Windows NT, Solaris, AIX and NetWare, and addresses the needs of both mission-critical enterprise applications and direct connect storage links.

"The ca smart certification of our Fibre Channel host bus adapters reinforces Emulex's commitment to providing best-in-class, proven solutions to meet the needs of our enterprise storage networking customers," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex. "We will continue working closely with CA to ensure the deployment of the industry's most reliable and robust storage networking solutions."

The Emulex Family of Host Bus Adapters

The Emulex family of HBAs offers high performance, standards-based connectivity solutions for both Fibre Channel and Internet protocol (IP) storage networking environments. Emulex host bus adapters provide a unique combination of features required for mission-critical enterprise environments that deliver reliability, high bandwidth, server CPU offload, low latency and scalable connectivity.

For information about how Emulex HBAs increase SAN productivity and efficiency, visit the Emulex Web site at www.emulex.com and download the IDC whitepaper titled, "Measuring the HBA's Role in SAN Management."

The Emulex LightPulse family of Fibre Channel HBAs offers full fabric support, high data integrity, full-duplex operation, data buffering for up to 100km of cabling and support for all Fibre Channel topologies. The Emulex LightPulse family of Fibre Channel products includes the 2Gb/s LP9002L and LP952L, low profile HBAs, the 2Gb/s LP9002C CompactPCI HBA, the 2Gb/s LP9002S SBus-based HBA and the market-leading LP8000.

The Emulex family of IP-based storage networking host bus adapters includes the GN9000/SI iSCSI host bus adapter and the GN9000/VI VI/IP host bus adapter. The Emulex GN9000/SI is designed to provide the high performance iSCSI connectivity over gigabit Ethernet for PCI-based systems.

The Emulex GN9000/VI VI/IP HBA enables network attached storage (NAS) appliances and hosts to exchange file system data over IP networks, while gaining the high throughput, low latency and reduced CPU overhead benefits of the virtual interface (VI) architecture. For more information on the Emulex product families, visit www.emulex.com.

About Emulex

Emulex is a leading supplier and developer of storage and server networking host bus adapters based on both Fibre Channel and IP networking technologies. Storage networks provide data centers with high-speed, scalable and highly available storage access. Server networks enable the creation of high-performance server clusters for database and transaction processing.

The Emulex product families are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership.

The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Compaq, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu- Siemens, Groupe Bull, Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Unisys. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, INRANGE, Intel, Legato, McDATA, Microsoft and Veritas among its strategic partners.

Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as its two-tier distribution partners, including ACAL, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Consan, CTC, Info-X, Tech Data, TidalWire and Tokyo Electron. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa. News releases and other information about Emulex are available at www.emulex.com.

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"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. The company wishes to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include the rapidly changing nature of technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements by competitors; fluctuation in the growth of the Fibre Channel and IP markets; changes in economic conditions or changes in end-user demand for technology solutions; fluctuations or delays in customer orders; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex's products; Emulex's ability to gain market acceptance for its products; the company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the company's reliance on third-party suppliers. These and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.

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